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ART 222
History of Western Art II: Renaissance to Modern
FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The reference collection is a good place to begin looking for information, especially if
 you don’t know much about your topic and need a place to start,
 need help choosing a topic (or broadening it or narrowing it down), or
 need some suggestions for further reading.
The following print (listed in call number order) and online titles, which are all located in the reference section or
on the library’s web page,, may help you with background information or an overview of your topic in art history.
All of these works contain articles on some aspect of art or biographical information on artists.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 1998. REF/BH/56/.E53
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2003. REF/BX/841/.N44
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005. REF/CB/9/.N49
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 1999. REF/CB/361/.E52/1999
Great Events from World History.
Renaissance REF/D/228/.G73
17th Century REF/D/288/.G68
18th Century REF/D/286/.G74
19th Century REF/D/358/.G74
20th Century REF/D/421/.G629
Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, 2001. REF/DA/315/.T753
Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832, 1999. REF/DA/.O94/1999
Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, 1988. REF/DA/550/.V53/1988
Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History, 2001. REF/E/169.1/.E624
Salem Decades (1920s,- 2000s) REF/E/169.12/.S251 Salem History
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women, 2000. REF/HQ/1115/.R69.2000
Women in World History, 1999. REF/HQ/1115/.W6/ 1999
Dictionary of Art, 1996. REF/N/31/.D5/1996. Also available online as Oxford Art Online.
Encyclopedia of World Art, 1959. REF/N/31/.E533
Adeline Art Dictionary, 1966. REF/N/33/.A223
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art, 1969. REF/N/33/.M23
Oxford Companion to Art, 1970. REF/N/33/.O9
Oxford Dictionary of Art, 1988. REF/N/33/.O93
Understanding Art: Themes, Techniques and Methods, 1981. REF/N/5300/.R24
LaRousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art, 1961. REF/N/6350/.H813
LaRousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art, 1961. REF/N/6450/.H8132
Thames & Hudson Encyclopedia of Impressionism, 1990. REF/N/6465/.I4/D4
Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art, 1981. REF/N/6490/.O94
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art, 2000. REF/N/6502/.E53
North American Women Artists of the 20th Century, 1995. REF/N/6503/.N67/1995
Encyclopedia of American Art, 1981. REF/N/6505/.B73
Dictionary of American Contemporary Artists, 1988. REF/N/6512/.C854
Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in American since 1850, 1990. REF/N/6757/.D86
Dictionary of Women Artists, 1997. REF/N/8354/.D53/1997
Dictionary of Architecture and Construction, 1993. REF/NA/31/.B2
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Who's Who in Architecture from 1400 to the Present, 1977. REF/NA/40/.W48
Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture, 1963. REF/NA/680/.E5
Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, 1986. REF/NA/680/.H893
Cyclopedia of Painters and Painting, 1887. REF/ND/30/.C4
Encyclopedia of Painting, 1955. REF/ND/30/.E5
Praeger Encyclopedia of Old Masters, 1958. REF/ND/30/.F413
Dictionary of Abstract Painting, 1957. REF/ND/35/.B48
Men of Art, 1931. REF/ND/50/.C7
Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, no date. REF/ND/50/.D53
Nineteenth Century Painting: A Dictionary, 1977. REF/ND/190/.N57
Dictionary of Italian Painting, 1964. REF/ND/6111/.D513
20th Century American Folk, Self-Taught and Outsider Art, 1993. REF/NK/8051/.S46/1993
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, 2004. REF/NX/512.3/.A35/E53
Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 1993. REF/TR/9/.F6
Photography Encyclopedia, 1999. REF/TR/9/.M39/1999
Oxford Companion to Photography, 2005. REF/TR/9/.O94
Biography in Context (
BiC is almost completely full-text; contains biographies on many artists.)
Credo Reference
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Oxford Art Online (includes Dictionary of Art as well as other titles)
Pelican History of Art Series
Baroque Art and Architecture in Central Europe, 1965. REF/N/6380/.H4
Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780-1880, 1960. REF/N/6750/.N6
Art and Architecture of Eighteenth Century France, 1972. REF/N/6846/.K2613
Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, 1958. REF/N/6926/.W5
Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500-1600, 1969. REF/N/6925/.O813
Art and Architecture in Belgium, 1960. REF/N/6966/.G43
Art and Architecture in Spain, Portugal and Their American Dominions 1500-1800, 1959. REF/N/7104/.K8
Architecture in Britain 1530-1830, 1954. REF/NA/954/.S85
Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1958. REF/NA/4140/.H5
Sculpture in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain 1400-1500, 1966. REF/NB/615/.S45
Sculpture in Britain 1530-1830, 1964. REF/NB/464/.W5
Sculpture in Italy 1400-1500, 1966. REF/NB/615/.S45
Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940, 1967. REF/ND/457/.H3
Painting in Britain 1530-1790, 1953. REF/ND/464/.W37
Painting in Italy 1500-1600, 1970. REF/ND/615/.F66
Dutch Art and Architecture 1600-1800, 1966. REF/ND/636/.R6
FINDING MATERIAL IN THE ONLINE CATALOG
You can look for materials in the library's online catalog by author, title or subject or keyword. The online catalog
has some powerful searching features, such as limiting your search to location, language, etc. You may access
the library’s catalog by going to the library web page (www.library.ehc.edu). The catalog is the first link under
Books, Articles, & More, or you can access it directly by typing in the URL www.hal.org. Please note that this
catalog includes Kelly Library’s holdings as well as the King College library, and the Washington County and
Tazewell County public libraries. Since this group is known as Holston Associated Libraries, you may hear the
catalog referred to as HAL. With your student ID card, you may check out materials from all of these libraries,
as well as request them through the catalog. On the following page is a sample subject search on Henri
Matisse.
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If you don't have any specific author, subject or title in mind, the following subject headings may be helpful. Of
course, “Art” is a huge topic, and this is a very selective list. Please consult with a librarian if you are having
trouble finding information you need on your topic.
ARCHITECTURE
ART
ART—15TH CENTURY
ART—16TH CENTURY
ART, ABSTRACT
ART, AMERICAN
ART DECO
ART, ENGLISH
ART, EUROPEAN
ART, FRENCH
ART, GERMAN
ART—HISTORY
ART, ITALIAN
ART, MODERN
ART, PHILOSOPHY
ART, RENAISSANCE
ART—TECHNIQUE
ART—THEMES AND MOTIVES
ARTISTS
CLASSICISM IN ART
CUBISM
FEMINISM AND ART
IMPRESSIONISM
PAINTERS; PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTISTIC
REALISM IN ART
SCULPTURE
SYMBOLISM IN ART
WOMEN ARTISTS
Personal names, such as BASQUIAT, JEAN MICHEL
FINDING MATERIAL BY USING DATABASES
Kelly Library subscribes to several online full-text and partially full-text databases that would be helpful in locating
material for your research assignments in this class. You may access them from the library web page by clicking
on Journal Articles & Databases under Books, Articles, & More heading.
ARTstor
A digital image library.
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EBSCO Databases
Academic Search Complete and Humanities Search Complete. These databases are partially full-text
and include both popular and scholarly periodicals in a wide variety of academic fields. See the sample search
on Picasso and Guernica from Academic Search Complete. The user interface for both ASC and HSC is the
same.
You can see that the search using the terms “Picasso” and “Guernica” resulted in a list of over 100 articles. The
ones that are full-text are designated by “PDF full text” or “HTML full text.” For articles that are not full-text, you
would need to search the periodical title in the E Journals by Title list found under Books, Articles, & More to
determine if the article is full-text in another database or a title search in the online catalog to see if the library
has a subscription to journal.
General Onefile
Like Academic Search Complete, you probably used this database in Transitions or English 101. It is
a multi-subject, partially full-text database. Some of its content may overlap with that ASC, but it has
unique periodicals too.
JSTOR
An almost 100% full-text database of hundreds of scholarly journals. Although there is a time lag or
“moving wall” of 2-5 years, the database goes back to volume 1, issue 1 for each journal.
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My search in the advanced mode on Keith Haring, limited to only articles I can access, and to the subject area
of art & art history yielded over 70 articles. Notice how you can search for images in your results list too.
Project Muse
PM is a full-text database that has over 100 journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and
other academic publishers. Depending on your topic, this full-text database may be useful.
What if an article is not full-text in the database you are using? For example, this citation from Humanities
International Complete: “Tragic Representation: Paul Klee on Tragedy and Art” by Maria del Rosario Acosta
Lopez in the periodical Research in Phenomenology (issue # 3 2013). The article is not full-text. So, you will
need to check the Full-Text E-Journals list. You will see a screen like the one below.
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You can see that although Research in Phenomenology is full-text in several databases, there is a 1-year
embargo on articles in HIC. So, this article is not available in any of Kelly Library’s databases, at least until the 1year embargo is over. If you want to obtain the article, you will need to use the interlibrary loan service, which is
described in more detail later.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text
A database of master’s and doctoral theses and dissertations in all subject areas, including art.
Many are full-text.
World Catalog
It is not full-text, but it is a database of millions of records of books and other materials. If you
cannot find material in the library catalog, this would be a good place to identify titles on a subject
and request them through interlibrary loan. Below is a sample search on Cindy Sherman. Even though
Kelly Library has only two books on this artist, I was able to identify nearly 1000 titles on
her in World Catalog. If I were actually writing a research paper on her, I could then request some
of these titles through interlibrary loan.
Newspaper Databases
Newspapers can also be a valuable source of art information, particularly for reviews of art shows. Kelly
Library has the New York Times on microfilm from 1858-2011, with accompanying indexes through 1997. In
addition, the library has 4 full-text newspaper services: America’s Newspapers, Factiva, Lexis Nexis, and
Newspaper Source Plus. These databases cover major and regional U.S. newspapers, as well as some
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international English-language titles. Below is an example from Lexis Nexis:
My search on Henri Rousseau yielded several articles from major city newspapers, such as the (London) Times,
New York Times, and Washington Post.
REMOTE ACCESS
You can access all of these databases from off campus. To find directions on how to do this, click on Off
Campus Connection under the Research heading. Or, ask a reference librarian for directions.
INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Although Kelly Library has a large collection of periodicals, art books and full-text databases, you will find
citations to materials this library does not own. The library staff will try to borrow these items for you through the
interlibrary loan process. There is no charge for the first 50 items requested during the academic year. Please
carefully choose items to request and double-check the Full-Text E-Journals list and the online catalog to
be sure that Kelly Library does not already own the material. Also, the library staff asks that you do not
submit more than 10 requests for returnable material at one time. You should allow 5-7 days for your requests to
arrive.
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To request items through interlibrary loan, you will need to register (one time only) on ILLiad, our online ordering
system. The interlibrary loan link is under the Services heading. If you need help registering or ordering,
please ask a library staff member for assistance.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Barnet’s A Short Guide to Writing about Art (on permanent reserve) has some good suggestions for reputable art
sites on the Internet. You might also wish to try Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). You might also try the
advanced search function in Google, and limit your search to an .edu or .org domain. As always, apply good
judgment and be critical of web sites that are not signed or attributed to an organization, reach undocumented
conclusions, have lots of typographical errors, or have not been recently updated.
DOCUMENTATION
Whenever you quote an author’s exact words or paraphrase his or her unique ideas, you must credit that source
to avoid plagiarism. Academic fields have various documentation systems to credit the authors, such as the
MLA, APA or Chicago styles. For this class, you will use the format set forth in Sylvan Barnet’s A Short Guide
to Writing about Art. It is on permanent reserve at the Circulation Desk. You might also want to check out the
Research Tips link under Research for documentation sites.
Remember: If you need help using or locating any of the materials mentioned in this handout, please ask a
reference librarian or circulation staff member for assistance. If that person cannot help you, he or she will direct
you to someone who can.
Librarians
Circulation Staff
Jane Caldwell
Patty Greany
Jody Hanshew
Janet Kirby
Lorraine Abraham (Library Director / CIO)
Jennifer Bassett
Katie Fletcher
David Lyons
Holly McCormick
Janice Snead
www.library.ehc.edu
askalibrarian@ehc.edu
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